AQUISTORE - Key Persons

Haley is responsible for the day to day financial activities at the PTRC, as well as the administration and execution of contracts. She received a diploma in office administration and comes to the PTRC with seven years of administrative experience.

Howard Loseth

Job Titles:

Director
Member of the Board
Director, Energy Development and Climate Change, Government of Saskatchewan

Howard Loseth is the Director, Energy Development and Climate Change Unit of the Energy Policy Branch, Ministry of Energy and Resources. Howard has been with Energy and Resources for 40 years, gaining upstream oil and gas sector experience in a variety of areas. Starting in the field office right after graduating with an engineering degree, moving to reservoir engineering in the Resource Management Branch in the Energy Regulation Division and then to the Energy Policy Branch in the Resource Development Division, all with Energy and Resources. Current focus areas include advancing new technology and assessing climate change issues and opportunities.

Kevin Chung

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
Director of Innovation Investments at Innovation Saskatchewan

Kevin Chung is the Director of Innovation Investments at Innovation Saskatchewan, a provincial government agency responsible for supporting R&D and growing the technology sector. At the agency, Kevin is responsible for various programs and investments that promote industry-driven R&D, including the Saskatchewan Advantage Innovation Fund, the Agtech Growth Fund, and the government's $15 million investment in an agtech venture capital fund. Kevin works closely with companies and stakeholders in the local innovation ecosystem, developing programs and policies that support the growth of Saskatchewan's technology and research sectors. Kevin holds a B.A. Honors in Political Science with a minor in Entrepreneurship.

Kristal Allen

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
Partner
Chairman / Partner, MacPherson, Leslie and Tyerman

Kristal Allen is a partner with MLT Aikins LLP, and former senior legal counsel and chief privacy officer to a large public company with operations around the globe. Kristal's practice centers on technology and privacy law, with specific focus on the development and management of information and intellectual property assets and new technology. In her practice, Kristal draws upon her significant industry experience to provide practical legal advice regarding cybersecurity and privacy compliance, and provides extensive knowledge of risk management and policy development related to data sharing, electronic documents, information assets, information security and privacy. She has advised an array of both private and public sector organizations regarding health, employee and customer information privacy and security matters.

Lesley McGilp

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
Vice - President of SRC 's Energy Division
Vice - President, Energy Division, Saskatchewan Research Council

Lesley McGilp is Vice-President of SRC's Energy Division. She previously managed SRC's Pipe Flow Technology Centre for over 10 years and prior to SRC, served as a Staff Engineer at Rock Energy and a Senior Engineering Advisor at Northrock Resources. In addition to corporate management and leadership, she has over 10 years of experience in upstream oil and gas, including exploration and development and acquisitions and divestitures. Lesley holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Business Administration from the Haskayne School of Business.

M. ENG - CEO, President

Job Titles:

Chief Executive Officer
President

Ranjith Narayanasamy comes to the PTRC from a senior management position at SaskPower. He has been working in the utility industry since 2005 in Canada, and has over 16 years of versatile experiences in SCADA Cyber Security, Engineering and Operations, Corporate Finance, Business Transformation, Green Field Hydro Electric Development and Indigenous Business Development. He has also worked on SaskPower's Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Mobilization to India Initiative to build partnerships with Indian thermal utilities. He successfully created more than $350 million dollars of new indigenous economy by implementing an Indigenous Procurement strategy at SaskPower and won the Premier's Award for Public Service Excellence in 2019. Ran was chosen that same year as a CBC Saskatchewan Future 40 Finalist. Ran has strong board governance experience and has served on the Board of Gradworks Inc (Crown Investment Corporation) as vice-chair and as a Board member for Government of Saskatchewan's Community Investment Fund (CIF). He has also served on boards for non-profit organizations including as President of the India Canada Association of SK and President of the Regina Hindu Temple. At present he is serving on the Computer Engineering Technology - Program Advisory Committee for Saskatchewan Polytechnic, and on the University of Regina's Engineering Advisory Board. Ran was elected to the Board of the province of Saskatchewan's largest credit union - Conexus - in March of 2022. Ran has a Masters in Electronic Systems Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration from University of Regina, as well as a Masters Certificate in Project Management from York University's Schulich School of Business. He is a registered professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).

Majid (Matt) Nasehi

Job Titles:

Manager of Operations

Matt has over 20 years of experience in engineering and management, energy research, GHG emissions management, as well as environmental and energy-related policy and regulatory development. He studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, and completed his Master of Science in Petroleum Systems Engineering at the University of Regina. For the past 12 years, his work has been mainly focused on sustainable development of energy resources, GHG emissions reductions, carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), and CO 2 applications in enhanced oil recovery. Matt has also been actively involved in the development of Canadian and international CCS standards since 2010. He is a member of the ISO Technical Committee (ISO/TC-265) developing the international standards for CCS, and currently serves as the vice-chair of the Canadian CCS Technical Committee.

Mars Khasanov

Job Titles:

Director of Science

Megan Sigmeth - CFO

Job Titles:

Chief Financial Officer

Megan Sigmeth graduated from the University of Regina with a degree in Business, and later completed her accounting designation in 2014 from the Certified Management Accountants of Saskatchewan. Her accounting career began in 2009 where she worked in the Enterprise and Tax department at KPMG in Regina before joining The Corner Office in 2016 where she is now a Senior Associate, and contract CFO for PTRC. With over 10 years experience working with not-for-profits and small businesses, it has become a passion of hers to help them find success through a solid understanding of their financials, and implementation of technologies to provide additional insight with their reporting.

Mr. Dragutin Domitrović

Job Titles:

Reservoir Engineering Dept. Manager / INA INDUSTRIJA NAFTE D.D.

Mr. Erik Nickel - COO

Job Titles:

Director of Operations

Erik Nickel graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a degree in Geology in 1994 and obtained his Master of Science in geology from the University of Regina in 2008. After a 5 year tour as a wellsite geological consultant, Erik spent 15 years as a research geologist with the petroleum geology branch of the Saskatchewan Geological Survey. His research interests, while there, were primarily in the Mississippian carbonates of southeast Saskatchewan, performing some of the original Midale reservoir characterization for PTRC's Weyburn project starting in 2001. Erik also studied many other aspects of Saskatchewan's petroleum and natural gas resources, most notably an extensive body of work on the geology of Bakken tight oil reservoirs. Erik joined the PTRC in 2014 and is primarily responsible for the management and delivery of enhanced oil recovery research programs, including STEPS and HORNET, as well as managing the Centre's carbon capture and storage project (Aquistore).

Mr. Tamás Szakál

Job Titles:

Head of Operative Reservoir Management / MOL Group / MOL Plc

Ms. Celia Bejarano

Job Titles:

Geoscience Manager

Norm Sacuta - CCO

Job Titles:

Director of Communications

Norm has been Director of Communications at the Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) in Regina, Saskatchewan since 2008. Over the past years he has managed communications for the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project, the Aquistore deep saline CO2 storage project, and has worked with PTRC's Heavy Oil Research Network (HORNET). Norm has an MA in English from the University of Alberta in Edmonton and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His is an accomplished writer, and his fiction, poetry and journalism have appeared in various newspapers and magazines. His poetry collection, Garments of the Known, has been published by Nightwood Editions.

Prof. Erling Stenby

Job Titles:

Director of IVC - SEP / Department of Chemical Engineering / Technical University of Denmark

Randy Brunet

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
Partner
Vice - Chair / Partner, MacPherson, Leslie and Tyerman

Randy Brunet is a partner with MLT Aikins LLP (Western Canada's Law Firm). His practice focuses on technology, privacy and commercialization. He is the head of the firm's Science and Technology Practice Area that focuses on assisting Clients with their IT projects, protection and commercialization of the their inventions and innovations, protection of their trademarks and trade names, and Privacy and FOI challenges. More information is available at https://www.mltaikins.com/industry-groups/science-technology/

Simon Davies

Job Titles:

Engineer
VP Technology and Innovation, Canadian Natural Resources Limited

Simon Davies is a pragmatic engineer and team builder with over 37 years of experience working in the petrochemical and oil and gas sectors. As the VP of Technology and Innovation for Canadian Natural Resources Limited, he ensures that existing and upcoming technologies are considered in the company's strategy, to accelerate technology adoption, collaborations and investment, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions projects. Simon's broad experience includes technology development, pilot operation, and engineering design, commissioning and start up. He has a passion for clean technology and building integrated, collaborative teams. As a member of many collaborative industry alliances, he contributes to improving industry's environmental performance. He's also joint author of two patents, and an Expert Reviewer for the Carbon Removal XPRIZE competition to incentivize innovation in carbon removal projects.

Solvi Sjogren Amundrud

so..@npd.no

Job Titles:

Reservoir Engineer / Team Leader Reservoir Technology / Team Leader EOR

Stuart Tye

Job Titles:

Vice President of Conventional Heavy Oil

Stuart Tye is the Vice President of Conventional Heavy Oil and New Ventures at Cenovus Energy. He has over 25 years' experience in the oil and gas industry. Stuart has worked in a variety of technical and managerial positions focusing on exploration and development of international projects and more recently on assets in Western Canada. Starting his career in Australia working for Origin Energy, Stuart moved to Canada in 2003 where he has held positions at Husky Energy and Talisman Energy before his current role at Cenovus Energy. Stuart received his BSc (Hons) from James Cook University, Australia and a PhD in Geology from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Tyler Ellis-Toddington

Job Titles:

Member of the Board
Manager EOR, RE & PE, Cenovus Energy

Tyler graduated from the University of Alberta with a B. Sc. in Chemical Engineering. He has over 24 years' experience in the oil and gas industry, starting as an operator and progressing into a variety of development, production and reservoir engineering roles. Tyler was directly involved in enhanced oil recovery projects across Western Canada for the majority of his career. He was most recently employed as the Chief Petroleum Engineer at Husky and as the Director of EOR, Conventional Heavy Oil at Cenovus, monitoring active low carbon intensity polymer and CO 2 utilization EOR projects. He joined the PTRC Board in July 2018 to support innovative research and technologies that commercializes environmentally responsible energy production.

Wanda Russell

Job Titles:

Administrative and Communications Cooridinator

Wanda joined PTRC in 2022 from the Regina Catholic School Division. She provides assistance in administrative and communications duties. She convocated from the University of Regina in 1996 with a BA, and brings with her 13 years of office managerial experience. In her spare time she enjoys watching and contributing towards her kids' sports activities.

Zeinab Movahedzadeh

Zeinab graduated from the University of Regina with a degree in Petroleum System Engineering. She is responsible for coordinating the PTRC's Aquistore CO 2 Sequestration Project's measurement, monitoring and verification program as well as the Heavy Oil Research Network projects. Zeinab is registered as a professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientist of Saskatchewan (APEGS) in Canada.